Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-23

Seal Nearly all of our noted milliOneires
have French cooks aud Siewart's cook
was one of the best. Secretary WhitneV's
house at Washington has range SIS big
as that OF hotel and ne has 8 very cheer
full way of serving champagne at the most
of his receptions. Theodore Havemeyer,
the rich sugar factor, has q
hobby Of stock farming Isnd
his mountain side farm has &
barn 263 feet long with a carrisge way
running through it. AS on Palmer's
farm which spoke of, steam is here used
for everything, and Havemeyer, like Pal
mer. has pearly 100 jersey cows with g
Jersey bull which cost him $4,000.
A number of rich men are lobbyists on
religious Or moral questions, and the
names Of two now occur to me who are
noted Pronibitionists. These are Z. T.
Bsrnum, the rich showmsn, snd Schu-
mscher, the maker of nesrly ali the Oet-
meal for the United States. Barnum
stopped drinking in 1917. He first said
he would, not drink liquors, but
he made mental reservation IS
to champagne. He did not consider
chsmpagne-drinking at all dangerous
until he heard temperance lecture ct
Bridgeport, the subject of which was
Moderate Drinkers and Champagne
Suppers." The next day the lecturer
called upon him. Barnum took him down
into his wine cellar, showed him lot of
champagne bottles with the heads
knocked off. and told him to look at the
effect of his arguments. The lecturer
was astonished and said he thought Bar
nun was tee-totaler. Barnum replied
hof no hat ~
this he has not taken q drop. He does
not smoke or chew, and he sometimes
lectures on temperance. Schumacher
will not employ a man in his works who
drinks beer, and he thinks the best liquid
in the world is oatmeal water.
He gives his employees, however, picnic
once year and upon Nav Years invites
them to his house. Phil Armour is said
to hsve hobby in supporting negro
churches. He has also several mission
schools, one of which contains HOO
children, and not long ago one of his
schools of this kind did not seem to be
doing very we'll. He called the preacher
to him and told him he was not managing
it correctly, and that he ought to preach
go and so. The preacher questioned his
policy, but he carried it out and it is now
full to OVERLOOKING. Armour has also q
kindergarten in one of his schools, and it
is said that he has given more than
$780, 900 to such ends.
The fast millionaire OF to-day invsris-
bly, owns fast horse ind Our rich men
yearly spend fortunes upon their stables.
There e,e stables in New York the main
tenspce Of which costs from $4,000 to
Sl5 900 year, and it is estimated that
Robert Bonner mas spent $500, 900 upon
his hobby OF fast horses. Rsrus cost
him $50, 600. and it is ssid that he paid
$40, 900 for Maud S. Senator Stanford
is now erecting q stable in Washington
which is to cost $1,000, and his horses
apon the P&lo Alto farm have value
running into the millions. He breeds
here fast trotting horses, and he averages
a colt for every day in the year. Esch of
these colts Is worth not less than $1,000,
eDd he makes yearly sales Of horses of
$40, 900 and upwards. He lately sold s
morse to Senator Stockbridge for this
amount, ana his private secretary told me
not long ago that he got $50, 900 cash at
one auction sale OF his horses in New
York and brought it home in his pockets.
Pierre Lorillsrd sold Off $3.50, ZOO worth
Of horses year ago ~and Lorillard has
owned some of the finest steeds in the
United States. He has keptracipg horses
and it was his Parole who won $50 900 in
England, and his Iroquois, the famous
racer who brought $4,000 st his sale, is
the only American horse who has won the
English derby, the st. Leger and Wales
stakes, and he is said to be the handsom-
est horse in America. Iroquois was
hit I'M 40 mil JiCn nj
man, General W. II. Jackson, who hiss q
farm OF 1900 acres, and who owns Luke
Blackburn, Great Tom and Bremble.
Congressman Scott of Pennsylvania,
has stock farm OF 800 acres and rs
keeps this full of fine horses. He has q
race track think under cover and one OF
his horses cost $35, 600.
Robert Bonner, however, is the prince
Of horse fanciers. He does not buy his
horses for racing, nor does he buy them
fo- the advertisement of his business
All the world thought him extravsgant
when he paid $50, 900 for Dexter, but he
has bought dozen and more high priced
horses since then ard he paid $4,000 fol
PocohOntss. Startle, Edward Everett,
Joe Elliott and Maud Mscey each cost
MIN $4,000, and he paid SIC, 600 for Ed
win Forrest. He bought Maud S. of Van,
Cerbilt, and Vanderbilt sold him the
horse for $4,000 when he had been of
fered 100000 for her by other parties
Vanderbilt did not want Maud S. to be
put upon the race course. He got tired
| of being asked to race her, and he told
Bonner ne could have her at his own
price. Bonner fixed the price at 10000
and Vanderbilt gave him the horse.
| Bonner's New York stables have now
several hundred thousand dollars worth
OF horses within them, and among these
| is Dexter, who is now nearly thirty years
of sge. Bonner comes out TO his stables
as soon as he returns from his office, and
| he treats his horses IS though they were
his children, pettipg them and plsyins
with them. He does not allow them tc
| be whipped, and is as careful Of them 81
though they were babies. Senator Palmer
Of Michigan does not allow cross
word to be used upon his stock farm
and he tells his men in workips
the horses that they should give then
water TO drink whenever they want 8
drink themselves. Palmer has his stool
so trained that the colts will come up anC
rub their noses against him when b.
comes into the field, and he ssys that hi
average horse has considerably more
sense than the average man. He was LEI
into keeping Percheron horses by his ad
miration Of picture of Rosa Bonheurs
who had taken these horses for her mod
els. He was thus LED into the study o
the Percheron horse and he says tina
this horse is the best breed in the worlt
for general purposes.